Claude Monet is perhaps the most famous artist known for repeatedly painting the same subject over and over. He loved painting water lilies. The garden was a passion for him, much the same as art, so he blended the two, almost like he blended the colors in his work.

In the last twenty years of his life he focused mainly on painting the pond he'd created on his own property, and the lilies he'd transplanted there. Often gardeners worked for him, maintaining the picturesque setting.

Perhaps he didn't paint the lilies and the garden as much as he created a living painting around him.

Perhaps I'd like to do the same—only without the expense of a gardener—on the trails behind my house.